Motivational Quotes

Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Action

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.